Saint, Dora Jessie (1913–)
Saint, Dora Jessie (1913–)
British novelist. Name variations: Dora Saint; (pseudonym) Miss Read. Born Doris Jessie Shafe, April 17, 1913, in Surrey, England; dau. of Arthur Gunnis Shafe and Grace Read Shafe; m. Douglas Edward John Saint (schoolmaster), 1940; children: 1 daughter.
Works, which draw on her memoirs of living and teaching in a small English village, include Village School (1955), Fresh from the Country (1960), Chronicles of Fairacre (1964), The Howards of Caxley (1967), Battles at Thrush Green (1975), The White Robin (1979), A Fortunate Grandchild (1982), Time Remembered (1986), Miss Read's Christmas Book (1992) and A Peaceful Retirement (1996).
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